Season ticket holders at Jan Breydel Stadium haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Cercle Brugge languishing in the 16th position so far. The guesting Sint-Truiden will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
This pitch has grass, which is not Sint-Truiden's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Sint-Truiden have performed like this: Played 41 matches resulting in 10 wins, 15 draws and 16 defeats with the goal stats 46-65 (scored/conceded).
Cercle Brugge form and stats
Cercle Brugge's results here at Jan Breydel Stadium in the Pro League have been very modest with 1 victory, 1 draw and 5 defeats.
Cercle Brugge lost their last game at Anderlecht (placed 11th) after a 1-2 scoreline. In the match before that, Cercle Brugge hosted Royal Excel Mouscron and drew the game 2-2.
This is expected to be a close game, with Cercle Brugge perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Cercle Brugge as a small favourite), we find nine games. Cercle Brugge has won 1 of these, drawn 3 and lost 5.
Cercle Brugge aren't scoring a lot here at Jan Breydel Stadium in the league, with only 5 goals from 7 games. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Cercle Brugge with 14 goals conceded in these matches.
Sint-Truiden form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Pro League travels is 3 wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats.
The supporters enjoyed Sint-Truiden's previous game versus KV Oostende (placed 14th), a Pro League 1-0 win played at home. Prior to that result Sint-Truiden won their away game at Mechelen. The scoreline was 2-1.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Sint-Truiden playing away and similar expectations, we found four relevant matches. Results were 4 Sint-Truiden wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats.
Sint-Truiden find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 8 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. Sint-Truiden have conceded 17 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cercle Brugge 4 wins, 5 draws and Sint-Truiden 1 victory. As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 
Y. Boli
7 goals
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S. Peeters
5 goals
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Y. Suzuki
3 goals
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Cercle Brugge missing players
Sint-Truiden missing players
| Cercle Brugge | Sint-Truiden | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 8 | 12 |
| 35 | 14 | 5 | Conceded | C | 8 | 17 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 85% |
| 86% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 69% |
| 71% | 57% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 71% | 46% |
| 50% | 29% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 43% | 23% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 29% | 15% |
| 57% | 43% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 29% | 31% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 29% | 38% |
| 36% | 43% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 43% | 46% |
| 3.7 | 3.7 | 7 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 2 | 3 | 3.5 |
| 5.5 | 5.1 | 3.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 5.6 | 6.1 |
| 2.2 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
- All of Sint-Truiden's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cercle Brugge have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Cercle Brugge haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sint-Truiden have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Sint-Truiden have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sint-Truiden haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Club Brugge | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 28 | 33 |
| 2 | Standard Liege | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 27 |
| 3 | Gent | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 25 |
| 4 | Mechelen | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 24 |
| 5 | Zulte-Waregem | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 22 |
| 6 | Sporting Charleroi | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 22 |
| 7 | Antwerp | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 20 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 21 |
| 8 | Genk | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| 9 | Royal Excel Mouscron | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 20 |
| 10 | Sint-Truiden | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 17 | -8 | 18 |
| 11 | Anderlecht | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 17 |
| 12 | AS Eupen | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -12 | 16 |
| 13 | Kortrijk | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 22 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -3 | 14 |
| 14 | KV Oostende | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -12 | 11 |
| 15 | Waasland-Beveren | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -19 | 7 |
| 16 | Cercle Brugge | 14 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 35 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 21 | -24 | 4 |